English AS terminology

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Accommidating
When a speaker changes the way they speak to help communicate better (deliberatley)
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Convergance
Deliberately simplifying talk (slower) to help
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Devergance
Deliberately use overcomplicated words to confuse the person
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Adjacency pairs
Sequention utterances, always go together (question and answer)
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Sackx (theorist)
Claimed that adjacency pairs allow speaker to determine role
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Border crossing
Fairclough (1995)- Term used to change from different types of languages e.g from news to advertisment
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Borrowing
Language 'A' borrows words from language 'B' but in language 'A' there is no equivalent (e.g ammature)
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Child direct speach (motherease)
Speech is changed to try and communicate better with the infant
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Clifton Pie (theorist)
Parents who did not use motherease still had children who went on to develop there language normally
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Code switching
Use of two or more languages in the same conversation. Swappin over out of friendlyness not convience
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Collacation
(E.g nuclear/ nuclear family) words which have 2 meanings and are associated with different topics. indentifite by concordance run
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Multiplex
Interate network, work and social life people are the same group of people
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Uniplex
Where your work and social life group of friends are different and seperate people
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Critical discourse analysis
Seaks to find the intrest and power relations in institual and socihistroical conext through analysing the way people use the internet
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Convergance

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Deliberately simplifying talk (slower) to help

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Devergance

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Card 4

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Adjacency pairs

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Card 5

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Sackx (theorist)

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